Old boiler rooms are often home to steam-heating boilers. Older cities are loaded with these and lots of people — knuckleheads included — have had decades to mess with what the “dead men” once ...

Take a close look at this side-view of the near boiler piping. Can you see what's missing? Recently, the photos that accompany the columns haven’t been matching up as well as I like, and since “it’s ...

Furnaces are the most problematic component of day-to-day delayed coker operations. This article examines a variety of coker-furnace issues that Chevron Corp. has experienced at its refineries. El ...

A furnace that stops heating can quickly make a home uncomfortable, but not every heating problem requires an immediate service visit. Some issues come from simple settings, blocked airflow, power ...